Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 104, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 January 1981 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 2,1981

People in the news Rona, Snyder patch things up The new year was only a few hours old Thursday, when NBC-TV announced that an old feud between its stars of the late-night “Tomorrow” show, Tom Snyder and Rona Barrett, had been patched over, sort of. And beginning Jan. 12. they’ll be back on the air together again, only more or less separately in a newly retitled "Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast” show, said Irv Wilson, president of NBC Entertainment. He said the new format of the show, which is seen at 12:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, would be “more structured.” with Snyder and Miss Barrett appearing in separate features positioned regularly in each program. This was understood to mean, as someone associated with the show put it Thursday, that “both Tom and Rona will have their own segments, and we’ll be trying to keep them out of each other’s hair." A bitter dispute broke out between the two stars last November, shortly after Miss Barrett was hired away from ABC-TV by NBC. The quarrel was over what she said was an attempt by Snyder to diminish her role in the show. Snyder countered that Miss Barrett was trying to take the show away from him. Since then. Miss Barrett has been refusing to appear on the program with him. • NEW YORK (AP) Entertainer Liza Minnelli has suffered another miscarriage and lost the baby she was expecting in May, it was reported today. Columnist Earl Wilson reported in the New York Post that Miss Minnelli, 34, suffered a “mid-second trimester pregnancy loss’’ about 10 p.m. New Year’s Eve at a hospital near Reno. Nev. “We are incredibly upset and grieved by this sad turn of events on New Year’s Eve,” Wilson quoted Miss Minnelli’s husband, Mark Gero, as saying. According to the Post, Dr. Robert Stitt said, “There was nothing wrong with the baby. We’ve learned the difficulty. It’s probable that she will be able to conceive again.” Miss Minnelli had an earlier miscarriage in December 1979. A spokesman for the entertainer said Miss Minnelli will return to New York after a few days’ rest and then resume working. Miss Minnelli is the daughter of the late actress-singer Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli. A spokesman for a Reno, Nev., hospital said Wednesday that Miss Minnelli had successfully undergone minor surgery related to her pregnancy and that doctors believed she would carry to term. She won an Oscar for “Cabaret” in 1973, Tony awards in 1965 for “Flora, the Red Menace” and in 1978 for “The Act” and an Emmy for her “Liza with a Z” televisoin special. LOS ANGELES (AP)-Mary Tyler Moore has filed for divorce from her husband of 18 years. Grant Tinker, who will continue to run their joint production company, a spokeswoman for MTM Enterprises said. Miss Moore, 44, filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court, MTM publicist Jackie Flanagan said. The couple’s assets and obligations had been disposed of by written agreement, she said. THE ACTRESS STARRED in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” on CBS for seven years, then on Broadway in “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” Her performance in the hit movie “Ordinary People” may bring her first nomination for an Academy Award. Her only son, Richard Meeker, 24, bom of her first marriage, died in October of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Los Angeles coroner’s office has not ruled whether the death was accident or suicide. Miss Moore’s sister, Elizabeth Moore, 21, died of a drug overdose 2M> years ago. • Every year, like clockwork. Rosalynn Carter has been named “political style maker” by the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association. That’s how she was described in the trade group’s annual awards to the 10 women who most influenced national trends in hair, fashion and life styles. But the winds of political change are no more fickle than the whims of the nation’s hairdressers, and this year they’ve replaced Mrs. Carter on their style-maker list with Nancy Reagan. Also on the list are Loni Anderson, Bo Derek, Jayne Kennedy, Mary Tyler Moore, Stephanie Powers, Priscilla Presley, Victoria Principal, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick.

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Although Bess Myerson has been in Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital since Tuesday night, she still doesn’t know exactly how serious was an injury she sustained when she fell from a ladder in her home, a close friend said Thursday. “Because of the holiday, there’s been no one available to give a diagnosis, and we still don’t know how serious the back injury is, but she is in pain,” said the friend, who asked for anonymity. Miss Myerson, a former New York City consumer affairs commissioner and recent senatorial candidate, was said to have been redecorating her East Side apartment. She fell from a ladder late Tuesday and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. There were early reports that Miss Myerson was in the intensive-care unit, suffering from an attack of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. Later, a hospital official said: “I’ve received a press release from her press agent saying she has a slipped disc. That’s our version, then.” The friend of Miss Myerson said Thursday: “She was put in intensive care only because there were no rooms immediately available, and routine tests did turn up a low blood sugar problem. But it’s minor, and the real trouble is with her back.” The hospital switchboard Thursday would not put calls through to the 56-year-old Miss Myerson’s room. A hospital spokesman said she was in satisfactory condition. • NEW YORK (AP) Broadway stars and entertainers are like everyone else when it comes to New Year’s resolutions. They’re worried about their weight, bad habits and keeping to their good intentions. In comments in Thursday’s Daily News, a number of celebrities, including violinist Itzhak Perlman, Bert Parks and “Bamum” star Jim Dale, offered their personal resolutions for the new year. Said Perlman: “My resolution is to eat less and lose 25 pounds. Since I’m not a singer, I don’t need the weight.” Parks, former emcee of the Miss America pageant, resolved “to get fired again. It certainly did wonders. It will be a great year. You know it was last Jan. 3 that I got fired by the Miss America pageant and things have been just wonderful since.” “Annie” star Allison Smith worried about her soccer game. “My resolution,” she said, “is to stop breaking so many windows and be more careful playing soccer.” “And,” she added, “I will stop biting my nails.” For Dale, sticking to his New Year’s pledges was the main concern. “My resolution is not to break any of my New Year’s resolutions after the first week of 1981,” said the actor. • Blake Edwards, who gave us “10” and the “Pink Panther” series with Peter Sellers, will write, produce and direct, and his wife, Julie Andrews, will star in “Victor, Victoria.” It is described as a free adaptation with incidental music of a German film of the same title of the 19305. Miss Andrews will play an English opera singer stranded in Paris, who falls in love with a case entertainer. The other roles have not been cast, but production is scheduled to begin outside London in March. • Ryan O’Neal will star in “So Fine,” a comedy about the garment center, that goes into production in New York on Jan. 19. Andrew Bergman will direct from his original screenplay.

EVANSVILLE (AP)--Two newspaper publishers - one real, one make-believe - met over the telephone, exchanged shop-talk and marveled at the parallels between fact and fiction. The results delighted both women: Rossanna Enlow, president and board chairman of the Evansville Courier, and Nancy Marchand, who portrays newspaper chief Margaret Pynchon in television’s “Lou Grant.” “I’M SO PLEASED TO meet Mrs. Enlow, if only through this conversation,” Ms. Marchand said. “Although Mrs. Pynchon is very active in her newspaper, it’s still only a TV series. Mrs. Enlow is real. And I’m delighted to have an opportunity to meet a real-life counterpart of Mrs. Pynchon.” The long-distance telephone call came as Mrs. Enlow and the Courier staff were celebrating the real-life publisher’s 75th birthday. At first, Mrs. Enlow doubted the authenticity of the call. “I thought it was a practical joke until she wished me a happy birthday and said she was happy my staff had thrown a party,” Mrs. Enlow smiled. The two women found they had more in common than meets the eye. Mrs. Enlow, formerly a concert pianist, took over the Courier’s reins when her husband Robert died 12 years ago. THE FICTIONAL Mrs. Pynchon assumed her duties at “The Trib” when her spouse passed on prior to “Lou Grant’s” arrival in Los Angeles. Ms. Marchand wasn’t on the phone with Mrs. Enlow very long. But true to form, she managed to find out the paper’s latest circulation figures before hanging up.

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